A new 'city within a city' is springing up in the Arizona desert offering people the chance to own an 'affordable home'. The master-planned Teravalis community in Buckeye is situated between the White Tank Mountains and the Belmont Mountain Range, about 30 miles west of Phoenix, and will see 100,000 homes constructed on the 37,000 acre site. It has been developed by Howard Hughes Communities and will eventually have 300,000 residents living there. Project leaders celebrated the grand opening of the project last month.
There are seven builders involved in the development - Century Communities, Courtland Communities, DRB Homes, KB Home, Lennar, Meritage Homes, and New Home Company - constructing properties that will start around $324,990. Is that affordable by today's standards? Sound like a high price to pay to live in a desert where the nearest ocean is 500 miles away in Southern California.
Buckeye, Arizona summers are extremely hot, with average highs often soaring above 100° and frequently exceeding 90°+ for extended periods, with days reaching well over 110°, making it hotter than many nearby Phoenix areas due to its desert microclimate. Good luck with that...
I live about 10 miles from this new development. Yes, it is hot out here in the desert and we are not near the ocean. But 110° and 1% humidity isn't as bad as many (most?) places in the South. And out here we don't worry about hurricanes, sinkholes, humidity and bugs. I've lived in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina, so I do know what all those things are like.
ReplyDeleteWhere will the water for such a large new city come from?
DeleteThat's a resounding no from me. 300,000 people on 37,000 acres? Rattlesnakes, scorpions, Africanized honeybees and 8 people per acre for $325K? YGBSM....
ReplyDeleteI've lived in the valley around Phoenix for over 40 years. I have to agree with "Bob", the low humidity and other things make it nice living here. But it gets Damm hot some days. I was living here when it hit 123 degrees. Ouch! The valley has really changed over the years. But there's one thing that these big development companies seem to never think about. "Where the water is going to come from". Not to many years ago Dell Webb built a huge new community just north of Phoenix and called it "Anthem". Aside from the Phoenix water supply they tapped into the underground water supply for a community to the north named "New River". The New River community soon ran dry of water just a year or so after Anthem was built. They started to have to truck their water in. That community had been there over a hundred years. These builders just don't seem to get it! "There's not enough water to go around as it is"! How do they expect to support another 100,000 homes and 300,000 more people?
ReplyDeleteThe big question for that development is what will be its water source? For a year in the early 1980s I lived near Phoenix and water was always a public concern.
ReplyDeleteWater?
ReplyDeleteJust wait until the Cali Dems next bright idea hits, they will sellout.
ReplyDeleteHow many people will be in all those homes? How many gallons of water per person? It's a desert that is already short of water. Where are they going to get all that extra water? Growth at any cost in the desert is mind numbingly stupid.
ReplyDeleteLiving in Queen Creek we could see the impending water crisis, got out while we could. In our network there were realtors and city/county insiders who warned of what was coming. Water was the least of the problems. Federally funded out of state investors saw there were not enough apartments, Section 8 housing, halfway houses, group homes, or in-residence drug and alcohol treatment centers in very nice, very safe areas. The city of Phoenix was grateful to have so many problems shift to the burbs. Maybe when California implodes and the communists no longer control the state, water can be sold throughout the southwest instead of being dumped into the Pacific Ocean.
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